Ardnagappary
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Ard na gCeapairí
- Area
- 316.3 ha
- 782 acres
- Land parcels
- 580
- registered freehold, median 1,532 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 89
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
580 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnagappary, from 6 m² to 610,432 m² (61.04 ha, 150.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 114 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardnagappary in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Aug 2026N/a
FOIRGNEAMH GLÉASRA ATHCHÚRSÁLA UISCE AGUS NA OIBREACHA LÁITHREÁIN ATÁ COMHCHEANGAILTE LEIS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661541
12 Jun 2026N/a
2 AONAD COIMEÁDÁIN INA BHFUIL STÓRAS CUMHACHTA CEALLRAÍ GRÉINE LE HINBHÉIRTÉIRÍ AGUS 1 CHOIMEÁDÁN INA BHFUIL LASCTHREALAMH LEICTREACH, 3 CHOIMEÁDÁN SAN IOMLÁN
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661082
18 Mar 2026N/a
CHANGE OF USE FROM A PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING TO A SHORT-TERM RENTAL/HOLIDAY LETTING PROPERTY TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660445
3 Mar 2026Conditional
ATHRAÍODH SUÍOMH NA TEAGHAISE AR AN LÁITHREÁN, ATHRAÍODH SUÍOMH BEALACH ISTEACH AN LÁITHREÁIN, SUÍOMH AN UMAIR SHEIPTIGH AGUS AN LIMISTÉIR SHÍOTHLAITHE, FUINNEOG BHÁ TÓGTHA IN IONAD DHÁ FHUINNEOG, TEILGEAN TÓGTHA CHUIG NA HINGEARCHLÓNNA TOSAIGH LE FUINNEOGA ARDA AGUS CLÚDACH CLOICHE, FUINNEOG TÓGTHA IN IONAD DOIRSE DÚBAILTE CEADAITHE AR AN TAOBH-INGEARCHLÓ, AGUS GARÁISTE FAOI 25M² ATÁ CEADAITHE MAR FHORBAIRT
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660317
8 Dec 2025Conditional
INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562164
21 Nov 2025Conditional
FORBAIRT NEAMHÚDARAITHE TÍ CÓNAITHE AGUS CÓRAS CÓIREÁLA FUÍOLLUISCE AGUS NA HOIBREACHA LÁITHREÁIN GHAOLMHARA GO LÉIR A BHAINEANN LEIS. BHÍ AN FHORBAIRT FAOI RÉIR CHLÁR PLEANÁLA UIMHIR T.217/77 ROIMHE SEO
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562042
12 Nov 2025Conditional
DHÁ CHOMHARTHA ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN A BHAINT ANUAS AGUS TRÍ CHOMHARTHA ÚRA A CHUR SUAS LAISTIGH DE THEORAINN AN TSUÍMH
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561974
10 Nov 2025N/a
DHÁ CHOMHARTHA ATÁ ANN CHEANA FÉIN A BHAINT ANUAS AGUS TRÍ CHOMHARTHA ÚRA A CHUR SUAS LAISTIGH DE THEORAINN AN TSUÍMH
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561956
9 Oct 2025Conditional
AMENDMENT TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52429 CONSISTING OF RELOCATION OF THE HOUSE AND GARAGE TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE BY APPROX. 45 METRES AND MINOR RELOCATION OF APPROVED SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561765
30 Sept 2025Conditional
SÍNEADH DHÁ STÓR ATÁ ANN AGUS ATÁ LOCHTACH Ó THAOBH MICA DE A SCARTHÁIL AGUS SÍNEADH NUA A THÓGÁIL INA ÁIT, BEALACH ISTEACH SÍOMH NUA A THÓGÁIL AGUS NA HOIBREACHA SUÍOMH UILIG A BHAINEANN LEIS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561690
28 May 2025Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560870
15 May 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECT TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560782
5 May 2025N/a
ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560704
2 May 2025Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED STOREY AND A HALF HOUSE TO A SINGLE STOREY HOUSE (PLANNING REF NO. 24/60007 REFERS) AND (2) MINOR RELOCATION OF HOUSE POSITION TO THE SOUTH WEST OF THE SITE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560694
17 Feb 2025Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY ANNEX EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOUSE, (2) AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING WINDOWS AT THE FRONT AND SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) NEW WINDOW TO THE EXISTING GABLE AND (4) INTERNAL RENOVATION WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560194
4 Dec 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461988
24 Oct 2024Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REG. REF. NO. 21/50292 REFERS) INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461705
2 Sept 2024Refused
DHÁ POD GLAMPÁLA AGUS CORÁS EISILTEACH LE SCAGAIRE SNASCAIREACHT ITHREACH A THÓGAIL
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461346
9 Aug 2024Conditional
MEADÚ A RINNEADH AR AN TEACH CÓNAITHE AGUS CEAD PLEANÁLA CHUN LIMISTÉAR SÍOTHAILTHE ÚR SEARCAHAIS A THÓGAIL
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461224
10 Jul 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461058
10 Jul 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461056
3 Jul 2024Conditional
CHUN FORBAIRT AG ÁR MONARCHAN DE SÍNEADH D'AON STÓR AR PRÍOMHFHOIRGNEAMH AN MHONARCHAN
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461016
18 Jun 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460914
28 May 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A GLAZED ENTRANCE PORCH AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE TRAINING CENTRE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460783
17 May 2024Conditional
(1) AN PÁIRC IMEARTHA I N-AICE AN CLUBTHEACH A MHEADÚ AGUS A THÓGAIL, (2) SPÁS DO DHÁ ÁIT BINSE AR AN TAOBHLÍNE, (3) SCONSA A THÓGAIL AR IMEALL NA PÁIRCE, (4) AN BOSCA CRAOLTÓIREACHTA ATÁ ANN A LEAGAINT AGUS SEASTAN ÚRA INA MBEIDH 320 SUÍOCHAN, SPÁS DO DHÁ SHEOMRA FEISTÍS , DHÁ SHEOMRA STÓRAILE AGUS SIOPA CLUB.BEIDH SEO CEANGAILTE LEIS AN CLUBTHEACH, (5) CLÁR SCÓRAILE ÚR A THÓGAIL, (6) AN FOIRGNEAMH STÓRAILE ATÁ AG TAOBH AN BHEALAIGH A LEAGAINT AGUS SLÍ ISTEACH ÚR A THÓGAIL, (7) PÁIRC UILE AIMIRSEACH, (8) SOILSE ÚRA PÁIRCE AR AN PHÁIRC ATÁ LE MEADÚ , AN PHÁIRC ATÁ ANN CHÉANNA AGUS AN PÁIRC UILE AIMIRSEACH, (9) CORÁS ÚR EISILTEACH AGUS SCAGAIRE SNASCAIREACHT ITHREACH A THÓGAIL. TÁ RAITEAS TIONCHARA NATURA (NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT) LEIS AN T-IARRATAS SEO
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460724
The 25 most recent of 89 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
- Special Area of Conservation: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
- Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140
Recorded monuments
- DG032-004 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Internal diam. c. 21m. A circular area enclosed by the remains of a stone wall, probably 2.5m to 3m wide originally. Two stones at right angles to the wall on the E may indicate the S side of the entrance. 10m N of the site two stones are set on edge alongside each other. The site is located on a rock platform surrounded by sandy pasture close to the seashore. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- DG032-005 Midden
Description
Evans recorded a mound of iron slag, containing animal bones, shells, stone implements and pottery in Magheragallan. (1941, 71-75). A dark layer in a sand face at Ardnagappary to the S may be an extension of the Magheragallan layers. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached eight-bay two-storey former house and hotel, built c.1870, incorporating shopfronts, and having later porch to front. Now in use as house and public house. Pitched slate roof, with rendered coping to south gable, raised eaves course, replacement rainwater goods, and four smooth-rendered chimneystacks with string courses and clay pots. Flat felt roof to porch. Smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with exposed reveals. Shopfront to middle bays, having fixed timber glazed units flanking timber glazed door. Leaded stained-glass window to porch. Building set parallel to, and slightly back, from road, with rendered boundary walls to north and south. Wrought-iron double-leaf gate to north set to square-plan rendered piers, leading to yard having three-bay two-storey outbuilding having pitched slate roof, raised eaves course, replacement rainwater goods, remnants of limewash over rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with brick reveals and timber battened doors.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1258 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardnagappary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ardnagappary · Ard na gCeapairí
- Area
- 3,162,928 m² (316.29 ha, 781.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Magheraclogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Magheraclogher electoral division: 2,841 people in 1,130 households; 78% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dore, Magheraclogher, Magheragallan, Meenanillar, Meenderrygamph
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Ardnagappary on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.